Subject:I can't believe that song was covered by.....

Written By:loki 13on01/24/09 at 11:23 am

Ever come across a song that was covered by an artist or band that was so far out of the element of theoriginal song. I'm not talking about Rap samplings, I'm talking about heavy metal songs covered by Countrysingers or Crooners and vice versa. Here are a few I've found.

(Technotronic's 1995) third album, Recall was released 4 years later and fitted in the Eurodance parameters of the era. It featured the return of Ya Kid K on vocals and the inclusion of Daisy Rollocks AKA Daisy Dee (emphasis added) and C. Davis AKA Black Diamond.

...the only other explanation is that Technotronic covered itself in 1995 and sent Ms. Rollocks back in time to 1990 with the recording. (I have nightmarish visions of samplers playing back loops of "Are you John ConnorMC Eric?" against a house backbeat, and now you do, too.)

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Written By:barefootrobinon01/25/09 at 8:46 pm

Ever come across a song that was covered by an artist or band that was so far out of the element of theoriginal song. I'm not talking about Rap samplings, I'm talking about heavy metal songs covered by Countrysingers or Crooners and vice versa. Here are a few I've found.

Just watched both clips and my soul has been injured beyond repair. I was voting for Cerline's version - she staid truer to the lyrics - and then she started grinding. To be honest, I couldn't even watch the whole clips. I was at a wedding a few years ago and the Shania version was started by the DJ and people threw beer cans at him until he stopped it. Yes I live in Red Neck country. no I am not a Red Neck! ;D

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Written By:Foo Baron01/25/09 at 9:58 pm

I was at a wedding a few years ago and the Shania version was started by the DJ and people threw beer cans at him until he stopped it.

So Tatjana's 1993 cover of ZZ Top's Gimme All Your Lovin' would have been out of the question?

Interestingly, you can't find any evidence that it ever existed unless you mistakenly google for "Gimme All Your Loving", spelled with a "g", not an apostrophe as in the ZZ Top original. But what has been heard cannot be unheard, and once more, I spread the misery! Tatjana's pop-techno cover of ZZ Top makes Kim Wilde's eurodance cover of Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild look postiviely classy by comparison.

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Written By:barefootrobinon01/25/09 at 10:30 pm

So Tatjana's 1993 cover of ZZ Top's Gimme All Your Lovin' would have been out of the question?

Interestingly, you can't find any evidence that it ever existed unless you mistakenly google for "Gimme All Your Loving", spelled with a "g", not an apostrophe as in the ZZ Top original. But what has been heard cannot be unheard, and once more, I spread the misery! Tatjana's pop-techno cover of ZZ Top makes Kim Wilde's eurodance cover of Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild look postiviely classy by comparison.

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Written By:Satishon01/26/09 at 4:10 pm

Lounge music, in itself, is a musical style capable of inducing chuckles, so try imagining lounge music cover versions of famous songs! That's exactly what the Mike Flowers Pops created in 1995 and 1996, when they came to prominence with lounge covers of "Wonderwall" by Oasis, "Light My Fire" by the Doors, and "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" from the musical Evita:

It's hard to believe she had a #5 hit over here with a cover of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (a duet with Gerard Joling).

But what has been heard cannot be unheard, and once more, I spread the misery! Tatjana's pop-techno cover of ZZ Top makes Kim Wilde's eurodance cover of Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild look postiviely classy by comparison.

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Michael Jackson songs being covered by hard-edged alternative rockers will probably strike most people as a tad eccentric.

I'm sure we all remember Alien Ant Farm's version of "Smooth Criminal" from 2001:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxeNZOLNh4c

And in 2007, Chris Cornell(former singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave) came out with his version of "Billie Jean":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NUtbT8ecLA

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Written By:Satishon01/26/09 at 10:36 pm

The British band The Wedding Present were formed in 1985 and are generally known for pop-rock in a style rooted in the 80s post-punk scene:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_Present

One of the band's former members happened to have Ukrainian roots, and he got the group to make a record of traditional Ukrainian folk music, something far removed from the band's usual style. This member eventually ended up leaving the band and starting his own group called The Ukrainians to record Ukrainian folk music on a permanent basis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ukrainians

This is something that I'm sure is going to make you laugh; in 1992, The Ukrainians released a cover of "Big Mouth Strikes Again" by the Smiths, in a Ukrainian folk style, sung in Ukrainian! ;D The song's title translated into Ukrainian is "Batyar." Here's the song on Youtube as the background to a sequence of photo clips that someone made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_X8NC8AvA

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Written By:barefootrobinon01/27/09 at 12:31 pm

Michael Jackson songs being covered by hard-edged alternative rockers will probably strike most people as a tad eccentric.

And in 2007, Chris Cornell(former singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave) came out with his version of "Billie Jean":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NUtbT8ecLA

I liked it! I like the song tho, and I am a sucker for a hot guy belting out a song. I found on You tube another version of same, liked it better... Am going to IPOD it!

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=c2MgwAJrfXo&feature=related

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Written By:whistledogon01/27/09 at 10:32 pm

Gulp! :o

(Yep! It made a chart showing in Britain once again! :D)

That actually charted? :oMan, and I thought 'Nellie the Elephant' by the Toy Dolls was bad ;D

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Written By:Foo Baron01/27/09 at 11:16 pm

Lounge music, in itself, is a musical style capable of inducing chuckles, so try imaging lounge music cover versions of famous songs! That's exactly what the Mike Flowers Pops created in 1995 and 1996, when they came to prominence with lounge covers of "Wonderwall" by Oasis, "Light My Fire" by the Doors, and "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" from the musical Evita:

And the inimitable Richard Cheese, who took the whole Pat Boone / Mike Flowers Pops / lounge thing to its logical absurdity. The titles of the guy's albums say it all.

I still have his lounge covers of Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up (Best. Band. Intro. Evar), and White Zombie's More Human than Human ("Yeah! Yeah! Uh-huh! Yes! Oui! Si! I-agree!") tagged to ensure that they can appear at inappropriate moments during long stretches of techno/electro or industrial/rock on shuffle mode.

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Written By:Henkon01/28/09 at 4:24 pm

OK, I think we're all pretty familiar with Marylin Manson's cover of "Personal Jesus", but there are other bands touching Depeche Mode stuff as well..

Ever thought Master And Servant could sound like that mellow? ::)

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Written By:whistledogon01/28/09 at 4:50 pm

OK, I think we're all pretty familiar with Marylin Manson's cover of "Personal Jesus", but there are other bands touching Depeche Mode stuff as well..

Ever thought Master And Servant could sound like that mellow? ::)

I'm not sure I like that or not. DM's original however cannot ever be toppled

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Written By:Satishon01/29/09 at 12:51 pm

In 1993, the industrial group the Revolting Cocks did a cover of "Da' Ya' Think I'm Sexy" by Rod Stewart, which was pretty weird:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNZcxq7KB0(Warning: Some people might find this video offensive)

The Revolting Cocks were originally formed as a side-project for Ministry singer Al Jourgensen and others.

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Written By:woopson01/29/09 at 4:24 pm

Britney Spears "I Love Rock & Roll"

Especially that she had no clue about Joan Jett ::)

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Written By:barefootrobinon01/29/09 at 4:55 pm

Britney Spears "I Love Rock & Roll"

Especially that she had no clue about Joan Jett ::)

Or love - or Rock & Roll

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Written By:loki 13on01/29/09 at 5:19 pm

I found this one, I kind of wish I hadn't. :P

Mandy (Barry Manilow)

Boxcar Racer..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvdVwehERAc

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Written By:barefootrobinon01/29/09 at 5:30 pm

I found this one, I kind of wish I hadn't. :P

Mandy (Barry Manilow)

Boxcar Racer..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvdVwehERAc

I too wish you hadn't, although it did bring back memories of my brothers teenage garage band attempting to play something my Grandma liked in order to not be shut down during her visits.

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Written By:woopson01/30/09 at 5:07 pm

Chipmunk punk album

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Written By:Satishon01/31/09 at 11:52 am

Chipmunk punk album

Oh yeah, the Chipmunks did a cover of "My Sharona" in 1980: ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwuz7amTeW4

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Written By:Foo Baron02/01/09 at 12:30 am

Britney Spears "I Love Rock & Roll"

Especially that she had no clue about Joan Jett

Fixed that for you.

The mash-up / two-tracker (to which I can't find a link, but it'll be on the P2P networks. Does anyone know what DJ did this?) was brain-meltingly fun. Britney's execrable cover in one channel, Joan Jett's original in the other channel, beatmatched. Very simple concept and execution, but the result is so wrong it was right.

To make up for that, I'll add a cover that I consider of "So right it's right", I'll go with Joan Jett's 1990 cover of AC/DC's Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap). She only had to change one line, and while I can think of a million lines better than "your night-time friend", I'm willing to let that slide.

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Written By:loki 13on02/01/09 at 3:06 pm

This should be in Jason's thread but Joan Jett's version was a cover also. the song I Love Rock N Roll was originally madeby the British band Arrows in 1975. Joan Jett's version sounds close to the original.

Arrows..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT_Pbtyid0

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Written By:Foo Baron02/02/09 at 8:55 pm

This should be in Jason's thread but Joan Jett's version was a cover also.

Very cool.

And in the meantime, at about the same time you posted it, a generic blond model introduced the NBC pregame show by dancing in front of a CGI background while lip-syncing to an advertising jingle about NBC and the Super Bowl. To which the tune was I Hate Myself For Loving You. Wouldn't call it a cover; I wouldn't dignify it by calling it a parody. But it sure was weird to hear the Jett tune without any guitars.

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Wowee, Zowee, that's about as far removed from the original as a cover can get! :o

And considering just the lyrics, themselves, to "Straight Out of Compton," hearing a woman sing a mellow, acoustic version of it makes your jaw drop!

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Written By:Satishon02/16/09 at 1:03 pm

In 1996, Kermit the Frog did his version of "Dancing in the Dark" by Bruce Springsteen: ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mNyZVbSv5g

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Written By:Satishon02/16/09 at 1:12 pm

And the inimitable Richard Cheese, who took the whole Pat Boone / Mike Flowers Pops / lounge thing to its logical absurdity. The titles of the guy's albums say it all.

I still have his lounge covers of Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up (Best. Band. Intro. Evar), and White Zombie's More Human than Human ("Yeah! Yeah! Uh-huh! Yes! Oui! Si! I-agree!") tagged to ensure that they can appear at inappropriate moments during long stretches of techno/electro or industrial/rock on shuffle mode.

Totally wild! Richard Cheese's web site has a medley of clips of some of his songs playing in the background. Hearing lounge versions of "War Ensemble" by Slayer and "Gin and Juice" by Snoop Doggy Dogg just blows the mind! ;D

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Written By:Frankon02/17/09 at 2:37 pm

Would have loved to have seen The Carpenters or Anne Murray do "Whole lotta love" by Led Zeppelin, or AC/DC doing a cover version of the Carpenters "Sing a song".

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I can't believe some outfit calling itself Hot R.S. / HouseOfTheRisingSun) not only covered Stevie Wonder's Livin' for the City in 1978, but that they did it well.

Now I gotta find out what they did to the Kinks' You Really Got Me.

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Written By:whistledogon04/14/09 at 6:19 pm

The Carpenters and their version of Klaatu's 'Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft'

A - It's quite odd that an American group would cover a song by a Canadian group that FAILED to gain major recognition in the StatesB - That given the Carpenters style of music, they would cover a song by a Progressive Rock artist

For the record, The Carpenters version was more successful than the Klaatu original in both the US and Canada

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Written By:anabelon04/14/09 at 8:39 pm

Would have loved to have seen The Carpenters or Anne Murray do "Whole lotta love" by Led Zeppelin, or AC/DC doing a cover version of the Carpenters "Sing a song".

Didn't William Shatner cover a bunch of songs once?

Yes, he did, and I posted this on another thread somewhere, but it's just fun to freak people out:http://www.google.com/musica?aid=gSGe2xzr7kK&ei=_TnlSZ32CKCQmAfcrrDOAQ&sa=X&oi=music&ct=result

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Written By:anabelon04/14/09 at 8:53 pm

To me, the worst I have ever heard is Mariah Carey's cover of Def Leppard's "Bringin On The Heartbreak". The oddest thing about it to me, besides the fact that it was even done is that the band backed her up for doing it! I'd think they'd have been outraged, but they were appreciative and almost went as far as to say they liked it. Well, I don't think Joe Elliott REALLY liked it-he was just being nice! My ears bled and I had violent convulsions for a week after hearing HALF of it....